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Laurie Schwab (died June 1997) was an Australian journalist and broadcaster. Schwab was best known as a soccer writer for The Age newspaper in Melbourne.
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Early life
Schwab was the son of German immigrants and grew up in St Albans, Victoria.
Journalism
He joined The Age in the early 1970s where he soon became a soccer writer. He later founded and edited a specialised soccer newspaper, Soccer Action, published by The Age's parent company Fairfax. He also occasionally commentated on the game for ABC Radio.
For his services to soccer he was posthumously inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1999.
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